Saturday, 30 May 2015

Scorn With Added Vitriol - Matthew Parris

Bonus Review: Scorn With Added
Vitriol by Matthew Parris

This a fun little book full of hundreds
(possibly more than a thousand?) of collected short insults and curses on a wide
variety of topics, throughout history to the present day. There are
enough in here to appeal to peoples' different senses of humour –
everything from open vulgarity to suave lines from Oscar Wilde - and
I've enjoyed picking out my favourites to post on my Facebook feed.

Parris has sorted them into themes,
some neatly arranged so that they seem to answer each other in
an ongoing argument. A great little stocking-filler, ideal for
dipping into on a coffee table, in the bathroom, or (my personal
favourite) during video game loading screens.